At least 5,000 people gathered at Princes Park on Monday night to pay tribute to the 22-year-old, while hundreds more did the same at similar vigils across the nation.

"What happened to Eurydice has resonated with so many in Melbourne and around Australia," one of the Reclaim Princes Park vigil organisers, Pia Cerveri, told the crowd in Carlton North.

The vigil was both to grieve and celebrate Ms Dixon and send a message that women have the right to be safe anywhere and at any time, Ms Cerveri said, ahead of a twenty-minute silence during which the light's on the field were turned off.

People could be heard sobbing during the reflection and many held lit candles.

Eurydice Dixon deserved to be remembered for how she lived her life, not how she lost it. She was denied this right. As were far too many others. pic.twitter.com/94qnM6aXxk